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Building on our previous work, we apply a U-Net Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework to denoise galaxy images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and enhance morphological classification. This study focuses on galaxies observed up…

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Optical spectra contain a wealth of information about the physical properties and formation histories of galaxies. Often though, spectra are too noisy for this information to be accurately retrieved. In this study, we explore how machine…

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The growth in the number of galaxy images is much faster than the speed at which these galaxies can be labelled by humans. However, by leveraging the information present in the ever growing set of unlabelled images, semi-supervised learning…

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Galaxy model subtraction removes the smooth light of nearby galaxies so that fainter sources (e.g., stars, star clusters, background galaxies) can be identified and measured. Traditional approaches (isophotal or parametric fitting) are…

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In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised method, which is called Denoising Masked AutoEncoders (DMAE), for learning certified robust classifiers of images. In DMAE, we corrupt each image by adding Gaussian noises to each pixel value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Quanlin Wu , Hang Ye , Yuntian Gu , Huishuai Zhang , Liwei Wang , Di He

Weak gravitational lensing is a very sensitive way of measuring cosmological parameters, including dark energy, and of testing current theories of gravitation. In practice, this requires exquisite measurement of the shapes of billions of…

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Deep Learning based methods have emerged as the indisputable leaders for virtually all image restoration tasks. Especially in the domain of microscopy images, various content-aware image restoration (CARE) approaches are now used to improve…

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Astronomical images are essential for exploring and understanding the universe. Optical telescopes capable of deep observations, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, are heavily oversubscribed in the Astronomical Community. Images also often…

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Blending of galaxies has a major contribution in the systematic error budget of weak lensing studies, affecting photometric and shape measurements, particularly for ground-based, deep, photometric galaxy surveys, such as the Rubin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 Bastien Arcelin , Cyrille Doux , Eric Aubourg , Cécile Roucelle , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We present a method for automatic detection and classification of galaxies which includes a novel data-augmentation procedure to make trained models more robust against the data taken from different instruments and contrast-stretching…

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We present a novel approach for the dimensionality reduction of galaxy images by leveraging a combination of variational auto-encoders (VAE) and domain adaptation (DA). We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach using a sample of low…

In this paper, we jointly combine image classification and image denoising, aiming to enhance human perception of noisy images captured by edge devices, like low-light security cameras. In such settings, it is important to retain the…

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Spectroscopy represents the ideal observational method to maximally extract information from galaxies regarding their star formation and chemical enrichment histories. However, absorption spectra of galaxies prove rather challenging at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Oliver Camilleri , Zahra Sharbaf , Ignacio Ferreras

Ongoing and future photometric surveys will produce unprecedented volumes of galaxy images, necessitating robust, efficient methods for deriving galaxy morphological parameters at scale. Traditional approaches, such as parametric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Keen Leung , Colen Yan , Jun Yin

In generative modeling, tokenization simplifies complex data into compact, structured representations, creating a more efficient, learnable space. For high-dimensional visual data, it reduces redundancy and emphasizes key features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Long Zhao , Sanghyun Woo , Ziyu Wan , Yandong Li , Han Zhang , Boqing Gong , Hartwig Adam , Xuhui Jia , Ting Liu

Modern digital sky surveys have been acquiring images of billions of galaxies. While these images often provide sufficient details to analyze the shape of the galaxies, accurate analysis of such high volumes of images requires effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Sai Teja Erukude , Lior Shamir

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley

With the onset of large-scale astronomical surveys capturing millions of images, there is an increasing need to develop fast and accurate deconvolution algorithms that generalize well to different images. A powerful and accessible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Utsav Akhaury , Jean-Luc Starck , Pascale Jablonka , Frédéric Courbin , Kevin Michalewicz

Image denoising based on deep learning has witnessed significant advancements in recent years. However, existing deep learning methods lack quantitative control of the deviation or error on denoised images. The neural networks Self2Self is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Tie Liu , Yuhui Quan , Yingna Su , Yang Guo , Shu Liu , Haisheng Ji , Qi Hao , Yulong Gao , Yuxia Liu , Yikang Wang , Wenqing Sun , Mingde Ding

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized the field of deep learning over the past several years in diverse areas, including natural language processing, code generation, image recognition, time series forecasting, etc. We propose to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Hyosun Park , Yongsik Jo , Seokun Kang , Taehwan Kim , M. James Jee
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